MontaVista ® Software, Inc., the leader in embedded Linux® commercialization, announced Dan Cauchy has been appointed to the position of Vice President of Marketing. Dan becomes the newest member of MontaVista’s executive team, reporting directly to CEO Rusty Harris. He assumes responsibility for the company’s global marketing strategy including Product Marketing, Product Management, Marketing Communications, Partner Marketing, and web/eBusiness.

Dan has been an active speaker and advocate for embedded Linux and active in multiple industry organizations. He currently serves as Chairman of the Linux Foundation Carrier Grade Linux Workgroup and as a member of the GENIVI and SCOPE Alliances. With more than 18 years of experience in the embedded software and telecommunications industry, Dan has a broad industry view into the demands and needs of developers and customers.

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“I look forward to working closely with Dan, expanding our market presence and thought leadership through further aligning our marketing efforts with customer requirements,” said Rusty Harris, CEO of MontaVista. “Dan’s combination of customer focus, industry participation, and broad industry knowledge make him a perfect fit to lead our Marketing organization. His experience and enthusiasm, along with his active involvement in industry organizations such as Carrier Grade Linux, GENIVI, and SCOPE Alliance is a tremendous asset to MontaVista.”

• Prior to MontaVista, Director of Product Management at Atrica, acquired by Nokia-Siemens Networks

• Director of Architecture and Strategy at BlueLeaf Networks, a tunable laser optical networking startup

• Senior management positions at Cisco Systems, with business-unit responsibilities for networking products definition and architecture of the BPX and MGX ATM/FrameRelay product lines

• Engineering leadership positions at Newbridge Networks (acquired by Alcatel) where he helped develop the networking protocol stack of the highly successful multiservice WAN switching product line

• Engineering leadership positions at Nortel

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (with a Computer Engineering major) from the University of Ottawa

• Avid hockey player and skier

About MontaVista Software

MontaVista Software, Inc. is the leader in embedded Linux commercialization. For over 10 years, MontaVista has been helping embedded developers get the most out of open source by adding commercial quality, integration, hardware enablement, expert support, and the resources of the MontaVista development community. Because MontaVista customers enjoy faster time to market, more competitive device functionality, and lower total cost, more devices have been deployed with MontaVista than with any other Linux. To learn more, please visit www.mvista.com

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